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Sex work/ edited by Prabha Kotiswaran.

Contributor(s): Kotiswaran, Prabha Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Women Unlimited, 2011Description: lxii, 298 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9788188965656; 8188965650Subject(s): Prostitution -- India | Prostitutes -- IndiaDDC classification: 305.42

Contents:

The elusive ingénue; a transnational feminist analysis of European prostitution in Colonial Bombay / Ashwini Tambe -- The conference / Kalpana and Vasanth Kannabiran -- Voices from the pit / Sumanta Banerjee -- Demand for legitimising of prostitution in the west: a critique / Jean D'Cunha -- The tragedy of victimisation rhetoric: resurrecting the 'native' subject in international/postcolonial feminist legal politics / Ratna Kapur -- The prostitution question(s): female agency, sexuality and work / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Born unto brothels: toward a legal ethnography of sex work in an Indian red-light area / Prabha Kotiswaran -- Prositution as family economy / Anuja Agrawal -- Some questions -- some answers on sex work / Sex Workers' Forum, Kerala, 1999 -- Autobiography of a sex worker / Nalini Jameela -- Surveillance in decolonised social space: the case of sex workers in Bengal / Swati Ghosh -- Why the so-called Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act of India should be repealed? / Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata, 2006 -- Sex workers of India seek your support / National Network of Sex Workers and Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, 2006 -- Sex workers observe May Day in Bangalore / Karnataka Sex Workers Union, 2006 -- Charter of demands adopted by PLUS Network / Conference on Male Sex Workers, Kolkata, 2004 -- Sex workers' manifesto / First National Conference of Sex Workers in India, Kolkata, 1997 -- Appendices: The Prevention of Immoral Traffic and the Rehabilitation of Prostituted Persons Bill, 1993 -- The Prohibition of Immoral Traffic and Empowerment of Sexual Workers Bill, 1993 -- Sex Worker (Legalisation for Empowerment) Bill, 1993.

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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.42 EDI/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	01/06/2024	P18438

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Includes bibliographical references.

The elusive ingénue; a transnational feminist analysis of European prostitution in Colonial Bombay / Ashwini Tambe --
The conference / Kalpana and Vasanth Kannabiran --
Voices from the pit / Sumanta Banerjee --
Demand for legitimising of prostitution in the west: a critique / Jean D'Cunha --
The tragedy of victimisation rhetoric: resurrecting the 'native' subject in international/postcolonial feminist legal politics / Ratna Kapur --
The prostitution question(s): female agency, sexuality and work / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan --
Born unto brothels: toward a legal ethnography of sex work in an Indian red-light area / Prabha Kotiswaran --
Prositution as family economy / Anuja Agrawal --
Some questions --
some answers on sex work / Sex Workers' Forum, Kerala, 1999 --
Autobiography of a sex worker / Nalini Jameela --
Surveillance in decolonised social space: the case of sex workers in Bengal / Swati Ghosh --
Why the so-called Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act of India should be repealed? / Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata, 2006 --
Sex workers of India seek your support / National Network of Sex Workers and Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, 2006 --
Sex workers observe May Day in Bangalore / Karnataka Sex Workers Union, 2006 --
Charter of demands adopted by PLUS Network / Conference on Male Sex Workers, Kolkata, 2004 --
Sex workers' manifesto / First National Conference of Sex Workers in India, Kolkata, 1997 --
Appendices: The Prevention of Immoral Traffic and the Rehabilitation of Prostituted Persons Bill, 1993 --
The Prohibition of Immoral Traffic and Empowerment of Sexual Workers Bill, 1993 --
Sex Worker (Legalisation for Empowerment) Bill, 1993.

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